AmigaShopper50-Jun95.pdf

The essential magazine for Amiga enthusiasts

Happy Birth

Celebrate 10 glorious years

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Issue 50 June 1995 £ 3.99

ShopperDisks

Packed with excellent

programs, utilities

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Find the right genlock for

your video needs. We test

12 of the best. ^

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Shop per Reviews

• Add extra serial ports to your Amiga with

the GG2 card from Software Results.

• MultiLayer is an incredibly powerful image

composition tool from Premier Vision.

• Now Village Tronic have resumed

production of the Picasso II graphics card,

we decided to

take a look at it.

• Back to school with 10

Out Of 10's Driving Test

and German lessons.

• Plus, two new CD-ROMs.

ShopperTutorials

Assembler

Now you have the basics, you can start applying them.

The full listings are on the ShopperChoice Coverdisk.

Comms

Do you only have E-mail access to the Internet? Find

out how to get hold of the huge range of Amiga stuff

available to you.

DICE

Part two of DICE and our VMake program.

Photogenics

We show you how to use Photogenic's different paint

modes to create stunning effects.

D e lu x e

Check out what we thought of the latest

version of this classic package-!

The best Wo nch utilities

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Hard Drives

2.5" Hard Drives for 600/

I 200 with installation kit

inc. software, screws, cables and instr.

60Mb...£99.99 l30Mb...£l49.99

80Mb...£l09.99 240Mb...£204.99

3.5" Hard Disk Drives

with A1200/600 install kit

(W e recommend 3.5" drives be fitted by fully

qualified com puter engineers)

inc. software, cables and instructions I

260Mb....£l59.99 420Mb...£l79.99

540Mb....£l99.99 720Mb...£260.99

l.0Gig..£389.99

3.5" H/drive upgrade kit no HD only

£18.99

Full fitting service available, includes

fully insured UK mainland pickup and

delivery only £30.00

P R IM A 1200 E xternal H ard drives

P R IM A H D -3 5 0 (3 5 0m b ) £259.99

P R IM A H D -54 0 (5 4 0m b ) £305.99

P R IM A H D -73 0 (7 3 0m b ) £379.99

P R IM A H D - I 000 ( I G ig ) £ 54 4.9 9

P R IM A H D -2100 (2 .1 G ig) £899.99

P R IM A H D -4300 (4.3G ig) £1894.99

P R IM A H D -9100 (9 .1 G ig) £2659.99

Full Selection of SCSI drives available £POA

PRINTERS

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SUPRA MODEMS

G raphics Tablet

Supra- fi^ = Modem 2 8 8

Super fa s t! V34, 28,800 bps + 14,400 Fax

Phone for m ore details only £191.99

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AMIGA COMPUTING!

£219.99

I Please phone for details

NEW! Canon BJC70

£299.99

Su p r a t= M M M o d e m 1 44LC

V.32 bis (14400 baud !)

Low cost version of the classic V32Bis Fax modem. Features

as below but class I fax only and LED display

now only £91.99

Supra modems are not BABT approved, however they

perform as well & often out perform BABT approved

modems. Supra Modems have a 5 year limited warranty

9 Please phone for details

IIIN/EVV7 Canon BJ200ex

The amazing new graphics tablet for the Amig

developed with the help of First Computers. 94'

rated in Amiga Shopper August issue! Require

2.04 W B or above Q | | | y £ 5 9 9 9

£235.99

Su p r a p M X M o d e m v. 52 bis

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14400 Group 3 Fax. Includes free modem comms (not Fax)s/w

& cable

I 3 page/min speed, 720x360 DPI

I Canon BJC4000 Colour £309.99

| N£W/CanonBJC600eColour £445.99

'' ■ colour bubble jet from Canon

only £154.99

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VIDI 24 RT NEW £139.9*

I Real tim e colour digitising from any video souro

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I V ID I 12 AGA £59.9«

I Full support for AGA chipset. Colour images captured i

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Now only £327.99

Modem cable for Sportsterand Courier£9.99

USR modems comewith a 5 yearwarranty&

are BABT Approved

I Citizen printers have a 2 year guarantee

I ABC Colour printer £149.99

mple (as easy as ABC) to use 24 pin printer. Comes as

:andard with 50 sheet Auto sheet feeder. Tractor feed

optional at £27.99

only £134.99 if bought without the colour option

N E W ; Projet II Colour £269.99

I new inkjet printer with built in auto sheet feeder

I Swift Auto Sheet feeder

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A M IT E C

I m b 3.5"

drive

only £54.99

C um ana 3.5" drive only!! £49.99

I mb ext. drive, the best name in drives.

£64.99

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EPSON

Epson LX300 £129.99

I Parallel/Serial interface as standard, Colour upgradeable.

LQ150 Colour

SOFTWARE

CD ROM SOFTWARE

£209.99

Power Drive XL 1.76 ext.

Power Drive XL 1.76 int.

A600/I200 internal drive

A500 internal drive

A4000 internal D/drive

Zappo CD Rom drive

I 24 Pin Draft 216cps, LQ79cps

I Stylus 800 + £239.99

I 48 Nozzle inkjet 360 x 360 dpi (max) 100 sheet feeder

I Stylus Colour £439.99

I Colour Inkjet, 360 x 360 dpi, 720 x 720 (on special paper)

HEWLETT

PACKARD

HP 320 portable £234.99

I HP 320 Auto sheetfeeder £69.99

NEW! HP540 mono £269.99

I HP320/540Colourupgrade £36.99

| NEW! HP 660 Colour

17 Bit Collection

17 Bit Continuation

17 Bit Phase 4

17 Bit/LSD compendium I

17 Bit/LSD compendium 2

Adult Sensation

Am inet 4 (Nov 94)

Am inet5

Am inet collection (Box set 4 CD's)

Amos Users CD

Assassins CD

CD-PD I

CD-PD 2

CD-PD 3

CD-PD 4

Dem o CD I

Dem o C D 2

DeskTop Video CD

EuroSceneI

Emerald Mines

GIFs Galore

GoldFish I

GoldFish 2

Illusions CD

Light ROM

MultiMedia T oolKit

Netw ork CD

Professional Fonts

Sheer Delight

Sounds Terrific

Space & Astronomy

Towns of Tunes

W eird Science ClipArt

W eird Science Fonts

W eird Science Anims

W P D Fonts

W P D Hottest 4

W P D Utils 1-1500

£28.9

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PRIMA A 1200 CD ROM DRIVES

I B uilt in power supply, allows up to 6 SCSI devices to

I be attached. Full SCSI com patibility. Com plete w ith

I PRIMA Shareware Volum e I.

P R IM A T R IP LE S P EED £245.99

P R IM A Q U A D S P EED £345.99

P R IM A SCSI case on ly £69.99

S q u irre l SCSI P C M C IA inte rface

Only £40.00, when bought with drive £54.99 separate.

A 1 200 O VERDRIVE C D -R O M

Now with Alien Breed, Project X, F17 Challenge, Qwak,

Brutal Football and CD 32 game pad

N ew low price!!£ 199.99

| PanasonicCR503B 2 X Speed £132.99

•320M s Access tim e»300K B transfer rate

j TOSHIBA3601B 4XSpeed £269.99

• l50M s Access tim e»660K B transfer rate

I O ktagon 2008 S C S I - M card £124.99

GVPA4008scsi-n controller

MONITORS

A ll o u r m o n ito rs are U K spec. A ll m o n ito rs I

com e com p le te w ith a free A m ig a lead*

Microvitec Autoscan 1438

£435.99

MICE &TRACKERBALLS

Alpha Data Mega Mouse £ 13.99

400 Dpi 90% rating

Zydec Trackball £29.99

Alfa Data Crystal

Trackball only £34.99

.28 dpi, 15/38 K H z, all A m iga

m odes, A G A com p atib le . N o H

audio, t ilt & sw ivell stand.

only £289.99

COMPUTER PRINTERS

I Star LC100 Colour £124.99

I Star LC90 9 pin mono £105.99

I Star LC24024pin mono £125.99

I Star LC240C24 pin Colour £144.99

Star SJ144 Colour £239.99

I Stunning affordable colour printer. 3 PPM, low running cost

NEW! Philips 8833 MKI I

T his fam ous S tereo, c o lo u r m o n ito r is back. |

C o m p le te w ith 12 m o n th o n site m aintenance

only £234.99

tilt and sw ivell stand only £9.99 w hen

purchased w ith m o n ito r

LASER PRINTERS

Panasonic KXP4400

Oki 400ex

Both are 4 P/P/M, 300 dpi, I mb men

Stereo/Speaker Systems

£354.99

£359.99

£124.99

Aerospace Deluxe

ZyFi-2 S tereo System

5 watts per channel

ZyFi Pro S tereo System£57.99

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1 QTY DS/DD DISKS Branded DS/DD

10 £3.49 £4.99

! 30 £9.99 £13.99

50 £15.99 £19.99

100 £29.99 £37.99

200 £54.99 £69.99

500 £134.99 £162.99

| 1000 £259.99 £299.99

I I I All disks are guaranteed 100%. All branded disks come with labels

II Disk labels 500 £6.99

US! IHHEI [ S H I H I

hama

hama 292 £279.99

S-Video, and composite compatible

hama290 £679.99

S-Video, and composite mixing, plus far more

hama A-CUT Video Editor £ 185.99

GVP G enlock £289.99

features professional SVHS output

Rocgen Plus £164.99

Includes dual control for overlay and keyhole effects,

RGB pass thru. Check for compatibility

Rendale 8802 FM C £ 164.99

Rocgen Rockey £ 164.99

For creating special effects in video production with

■ PRIMA A500 512k RAM (no clock)

£19.99 ■

■ PRIMA A500 Plus 1 Mb RAM

£34.99 ■

■ PRIMA A600 1 Mb RAM (no clock)

£39.99 ■

1 1 Mb 72 Pin SIM M £39.99 ■

■ 2 Mb 72 Pin SIM M £99.99 ■

■ 4 Mb 72 P in S IM M £149.99 H

■ 8 M b 72 P in S IM M £284.99 H

■ 16M b 72 pin SIM M £439.99 ■

■ 1 Mb 30 pin SIM M £24.99 ■

■ 4 Mb 30 pin SIM M £145.99 ■

H 256 by 4 DRAM (DILs) (each) £5.99 ■

■ 1 Mb by 4 Z IP S(l/2 Mb) £32.99 ■

n 256 by 4 ZIPS (eac h) £5.99 ■

^ Part exchange available on your ■

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CHIPS

1 Kickstart 1.3 £23.99 1

M Kickstart 2.04 £30.99 ■

1 Kickstart 2.05 (for use in A600) £30.99 ■

Fatter Agnes 8375 £26.99 ■

■1 Super Denise £18.99 ■

■ 6571-0326 Keyboard controller £13.99 ■

C IA 8520A I/O controller £10.99 ■

68882 Co Pro 25mhz PLCC £34.99 ■

[ 68882 Co Pro 33mhz PLCC £44.99 ■

I 68882 Co Pro 40mhz PLCC £79.99 ■

68882 Co Pro 40 mhz PGA £89.99 ■

68882 Co Pro 50mhz PGA £99.99 M

PRIMA CO-PRO & RAM

||l|f| Realise the full potential o f your A 1200 w ith this

1 MB RAM

VIPER68030TURBO SERIES

68030 a c c e le ra to r running a t 28M hz

| expandible to I 28 Mb 32 Bit RAM (see RAM

prices) O p tio n al SCSI ad ap to r.

V ip e r 28 EC

V ip e r 28 M M U

V ip e r 33 M M U

1000 £9.99

R ib b o n s

Citizen Swift mono ribbon £4.99

Citizen Swift col. ribbon £13.99

Star LC 10/100 mono £3.69

Star LC 10/100 col. £4.99

Star LC240c col. £7.99

Star LC240c mono £12.99

Star LC240 mono £8.99

S ta rL C 2 4 -1 0/3 0 0 /2 0 0 C o lo u r £11.99

R e-Ink Spray fo r m ono ribbons £11.99

C O V E R S

Star printer covers £5.99

C itizen printer covers £5.99

H.Packard printer covers £5.99

Star printer covers £5.99

PR EM IER Ink Refills

e a fortune in running costs with your ink/bubble jet.

Compatible with HP, Canon, Star,Citizen & many others.

Single refills

£29.9

M USIC/SOUND

A u ra 12 b it sam pler £74.9

D e lu x e M usic C o n s tru c tio n S e t v2 £59.9

P ro M id i In te rfa c e by M ic ro d e a l £24.9

T echno Sound T u rb o 2 £28.9

T ecno Sound T u rb o £20.9

PROGRAMMING

A m os Professional

A m o s

Amiga 500/600/1200 PSU £34.99

I Amiga 500/500 Plus keyboards £45.99

I Am iga 500 Plus Motherboard £29.99

I Amiga 500 Plus cases £5.99

Q U A L IT Y M O USE M ATS £2.99

10 C A P A C IT Y DISK B O X £0.99

50 CAP LOCKABLE DISK B O X £3.49

100 CAP LOCKABLE DISK B O X £4.49

*90 CAP STACKABLE B A N X B O X £9.99

*150 CAP STACKABLE POSSO BOX £17.99

I *add £3.00 delivery if purchasing just one Posso or Banx box.

I Normal delivery when purchased with other product or when

I buying 2 or more.

A M IG A A500 D U S T C O VER £2.99

A M IG A 600 COVER £2.99

A M IG A 1200 COVER £2.99

14" M O N IT O R D U S TC O V E R £5.99

I Keyboard M em brane Covers £14.95

A M IG A T O SCART CABLES £9.99

STD 1.8 MTR PRINTER LEAD £2.99

I M O D EM /N U LL M O DEM CABLES £9.99

AMIGA CONTROL STATIONS

IA500 or 1200 VERSION

£47.9

£24.9

£74.9

P ro fe s s io n a l

C o m p ile

Alfa Scan 800 £ I 19.99

256 greyscale scanner up to 800 Dpi

Alfa Data Alfa Colour Scan

18 bit scanner w ith 256K colours inc colour correction

only £329.99

Alfa Scan 256 £139.99

256 greyscale scanner, includes Touch Up, Merge It and

full OCR software. Min. requirements I mb Ram, (2Mb

Ram and Hard Disk to use OCR software)

N E W M G a m e s m ith

D evpac 3

£50.9

UTILITIES

£59.9

£49.9

£24.9

N E W !! D ire c to ry O pus 5

GP F A X 2.3 softw are

X C o p y P ro V2 plus hardw arw e

VIDEO & GRAPHIC £69.9

£8.9

£399.9

£29.9

(2 2 m l)

£6.99

T w in refills

(4 4 m l)

£12.99

T h re e c o lo u r k it (66m l)

£19.99

Full co lo u r k it

(8 8 m l)

£27.99

Bulk re fills

(1 2 5 m l)

£24.99

N E W !! D eluxe P aint 5

M ake Path fo r V ista

Special offer !! Lightwave

V is ta P ro 3 (4 M b re q u ire d )

WORD PROCESSING/DTP

Final W rite r D T P NEW!

F inal C op y V 2 U K ..New Low Price!

P a g e s tre a m 3 U .K . v e rs io n

W o rd w o rth 2 A G A inc Print Mgr

W o rd w o rth 3.IS E

W o rd w o rth 3 .1

P e np al

C a r tr id g e s

Canon BJ 10 cart. £19.99

Canon BJ 200 cart. £19.99

HP Deskjet D/life m ono cart. £24.99

H P Deskjet col. cart. £26.99

Star SJ 144 m ono o r colour (3 pack) £21.99

M s e e l I a n e o u s

P rinter Switch Box 2 way £12.99

P rinter Switch Box 3 way £17.99

Printer Stands (Universal)save on space £4.99

3 Metre printer cable

EPSON GT6500 Colour Flatbed

New low price o n ly !! £499.99

Phone fo r in fo rm atio n pack.

A rt Department Pro

S ca n n e r s o ftw a re £99.99

compatible with Epson GT6500 & GT8000

£ 9 0 .9 9 ■

£69.9

£48.9

£174.9

£19.9

£54.5

£84.?

£29.9

■ 2 MB RAM

£ 1 2 9 .9 9 ■

4 MB RAM

£1 9 4 .9 9 ■

| 8 MB RAM

£3 1 9 .9 9 ■

LI [ 9.99 III

■ 2 MB & 33 M H z C O PRO

£149.99 ■

£6.9?

£36.99

1 4 MB & 33 MHz CO PRO

5 M etre printer cable

£8.99

A600 VERSION

£29.99

■ 8 MB & 33 M H z C O PRO

£334.99 ■

10 M etre printer cable

£12.99

VVho’s \ Vho

Editorial

op per Welcome

magazine for Amiga enthusiasts

Editor: Sue Grant E-mail sgrant@futurenet.co.uk

Consultant Editor: Nick Veitch

Art Editor: Nick Aspell

Production Editor: Anna Grenstam

Technical Writer: Graeme Sandiford

Contributors:

Richard Baguiey, Toby Simpson, Jason Holborn,

Larry Hickmott, Gary Whiteiey, Darren Irvine, John

Kennedy, John Parker, Paul Overaa.

Photography: Pete Canning

Group Art Director: Matthew Williams '

You can also contact us, or browse through a selection of Amiga

articles, tutorials etc. on the brand new FutureNet. It's completely free,

so what have you got to lose? Point your World Wide Web browser at:

http://www.futurenet.co.uk

T he A m ig a is 1 0 y e a r s o ld th is m o n th . B y th e tim e y o u r e a d th is w e

s h o u ld k n o w w h e t h e r o r n o t th e A m ig a w i ll s u r v iv e f o r a n o t h e r d e c a d e .

T en years ago the first ever

Amiga was demonstrated at the

June 1985 CES in Chicago and

to celebrate we asked Richard

Baguiey to bring you the

com prehensive report of the last 10 years

in the life of the Amiga - turn to page 16.

The results of our reader survey in issue 47

made interesting reading. Your ages range

from 15 to over 50 - half of you are in your

thirties. Only 3 per cent of our readers are

female, but don’t forget that this survey won’t

pick up on Amigas that are used by families, so

there are probably a lot more women and

children using Amigas out there -

especially as you also told us that

most of you use your Amigas for

leisure, rather than work.

The vast majority of you are in

full-time employment. Three

quarters of you own A1200s, the

other quarter mostly have A500s, or

A500+S. You have a very wide range

of hobbies, including breeding

budgerigars, home brewing, sailing

and flying. The price of a product is

very important to you when

choosing what to buy next for your Amiga

set-up and over 69 per cent of you regularly

buy products through mail order from

advertisers in Amiga Shopper. Turn to Talking

Shop, starting on page 102, for some of the

other comments and suggestions that you

made when filling in your surveys.

Our Supertests are proving extremely

popular and this month we’ve tried and

tested 12 genlocks for you. Steve McGill

discovers which are the best buys and advises

you what you should look out for to suit your

particular needs.

Plus, we have pages and pages of reviews

and in-depth tutorials to help you get the most

from your Amiga.

Sadly, this month is the last time that

Graeme Sandiford will be working on Amiga

Shopper. He is to move over to our sister

magazine Amiga Format to be their technical

expert. He has done sterling work for Amiga

Shopper over the past 15 months and I’m sure

you would all like to join the rest of the Amiga

Shopper team in thanking him for his excellent

efforts and wishing him well in his new post.

(We’ll still be getting him to do

freelance work in his spare time,

I’m sure, so he won’t disappear

from the mag entirely).

We have a new Technical Writer

and Coverdisk Editor joining us for

the next issue. He is David Taylor

from Amiga User International. He’s

done great things with their disks

and he promises he will be doing

the same for us. Welcome, David! H

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Senior Sales Executive: Diane Clarke

Sales Executive: David Matthews

Group Ad Manager: Mary de Sausmarez

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June 1995

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ShopperContents

June 1995

Issue 50

The essential m agazine fo r A m iga e nth usiasts

ShopperTutorials

Photogenics_________ 72

In the third instalment of Graeme

Sandiford’s series of Photogenics tutorials, he

teaches you how to use filter effects.

Assembler________

After having taught you all the Assembler-

basics, programming Guru Toby Simpson is

now getting slightly more serious in his

applications (if that's at all possible).

ShopperReviews

ShopperFeatures

DICE 78

We had a special version of DICE 3.0 on our

Coverdisk for the March 1995 issue. Toby

Simpson now gives you a chance to learn how

to make the most of this exciting language.

E3H The Light Works_37

0 A wonderful 3D CD-ROM that took

10 years of the Amiga _16

“ Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."

Yes, it's really 10 years since the very first

Amiga entered the stage. Richard Baguley

takes us through the ups and downs.

Graeme Sandiford by storm. Find

out why by turning to our regular page

on what's new and great in the CD-ROM market.

Comms___________

Darren Irvine took over from Dave Winder last

issue and did it so well he is back with more

from the land of “Comms ‘n’ stuff”. This month:

can you access the Internet with mere E-mail?

3D Arena____

Another CD-ROM that Graeme

Sandiford awarded a Star buy award.

The man must be impressed!

Competition

A M IG A

Supertest

In this month’s Supertest, Steve McGill helps

you choose the right genlock for your particular

needs by explaining the most important features

to look out for and testing some of the best

ones around.

DPaint V 40

Check out what Graeme Sandiford thought

of the latest version of this truly classic package.

ShopperRegulars

Coverdisk instructions_6

Steve Kennedy and Graeme Sandiford

make sure that you don't have any problems

installing and using your Personal Paint and

ShopperChoice Coverdisks.

Picasso II____________ 42

The Picasso II graphics card has been well-

regarded for a long time. Gary Whiteley

decided to put it through its paces.

Amiga Answers____

More expert advice from our panel of die-hard

Amiga professionals. If you have a problem with

your Amiga, these are the pages to turn to.

News _____________

This is the place to find out what's new, hot and

steaming in the Amiga market at present.

Remember, you saw it here first!

10 Out Of 10_________ 44

Graeme Sandiford looks at two award-

winning educational programs on how to

improve your German and driving skills.

Public Domain_____

Jason Holborn finds that PD libraries can be

the answer when you want to update your

Workbench utilities.

Letters. 102

You could win £25 for sounding off, or come

up with an hilariously funny caption in our regular

competition. Go on, surprise us!

MultiLayer 46

Graeme Sandiford reviews this incredibly

powerful image composition tool from those

clever blokes at Premier Vision. Also, check out

AS48 for Graeme’s interview with them.

ShopperReviews

GG2 34

W sjm John Kennedy has found a way of

| | 5 f S | bridging the hardware gap and adding

serial ports to his Amiga for a mere

£100. How? Read his review on page 34.

Next month. 106

Another packed issue of Amiga Shopper will be

hitting the streets on Tuesday, 30th May.

ShopperServices

104

Books_______

Mail Order__

Reader Ads_

Subscriptions

Back Issues_

PD Houses__

Market Place

User Groups _

Ad Index____

34 GoldenGate2 is a “marvel o f the industrial

The Amiga is 10 years old and we are

celebrating the birthday-boy on page 16.

age” according to John Kennedy.

A M IG A S H O P P E R

Issue 50

June 1995

ShopperContents

Supertest

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™^"Tiga enthusiasts

The Amiga Shopper Supertest is renowned for being the

most comprehensive and informative head-to-head review

in the business. Every month we take a good, long look at

products or programs we know are of immediate interest

to our readers. If you need to know which particular

programming language suits your needs (in AS47); which

modem is the best value for money (in AS48); which'

CD-ROM drive to get (in AS49), then turn to the Amiga

Shopper Supertest. This month Steve McGill casts

his critical eye on genlocks and talks about what they

can do for you.

a c k e d w ith

m ore!

Lola L1500 is an impressive genlock and you’ll find

many more in our Supertest on page 24.

Assentbi,

PTOflram.

The Am itek Fusion doesn’t look as professional as

the L1500, but on test they perform ed similarly.

ShopperDisks - turn to page 6 for full instructions

On Coverdisk 1 this month, we

have a special version of

Personal Paint. PP was released

only a couple of years ago and

has since been developed into

one of the most useful and

powerful paint packages on the

market. One of its greatest

advantages is its amazing speed

of operation. Try it out and find

out for yourself! On the

ShopperChoice disk, we have

three useful, full programs -

Bartender, Filer 3.23 and

Rubbish Dump, one Imagine

object and the usual tutorial files.

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